Quotes About Media

I don't read my own press, so I don't know what's being reported on a daily basis - I only hear about things when they reach a sort of Def-Con status, and my publicist calls me because we have to do some damage control.

We know everything about what you know and how you learn best because we get so much data. And education is the highest-stakes media product in your life. It's infinitely more important than your Facebook friends' status updates or your Google search results because it's your future.

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

The truth is, every movie is a message movie. It's just that most movies have messages that are in lock step with the status quo.

'Affable' is the word that often comes up from reporters, even staunch critics, who meet Lou Dobbs for the first time.

I don't really try to take notice of all the media. I just try to stay focused on my game.

Opinions are very easily heard in our media and technology-type of world that we're in. I just try to stay focused on the people that I'm around every day that I work with, that I trust and value.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.

The personal Michael is indescribable. He's magnanimous. He truly is in every way. Had it not been for all the media stuff, I would have stayed married to him forever unless he finally got tired of me.

I have always stayed away from TV. It never made sense to me.

When TV came along some years back I purposely stayed away from drama.

I don't get sick of being naked, but the added pressure is staying in really good shape, because naked shape is a different kind of shape than just regular TV shape. Regular, having-your-clothes-on TV shape is intense, but naked TV shape is, I mean, you really have to watch what you eat.

People can say: Okay, it's not the old-fashioned traditional journalism that took place in the 'Houston Chronicle' in 1975 - it's different. But that's also why newspapers are having a hard time staying relevant, you know?

If you can remain true to the people who know you the best and not be sidetracked by the flashing lights and glimmering of the cameras, it's like, just being down-to-earth and just kind of staying real.

What's annoying is we've launched a lot of shows like 'Pop Idol,' and then it goes to the States, and everything stays the same, yet they change the hosts. 'I'm A Celebrity' has been done twice in America now - but they changed the hosts. 'America's Got Talent,' we don't host - somebody else hosts.

Republicans tend to be more steadfast in their allegiance, and Democrats read one headline in the 'New York Times,' and the sky is suddenly falling.

For decades, we've worked under the assumption that mass culture follows a steadily declining path toward lowest-common-denominator standards, presumably because the 'masses' want dumb, simple pleasures and big media companies want to give the masses what they want.

It's amazing how much information we share in social media, then we wonder why people steal our identity.

We try never to have pictures of our children in the magazines, because there are strange people out there. But the paparazzi try to steal pictures.

One of the things that drives me crazy is the belief in Hollywood that bittorrent exists solely for stealing things.

History shows that it is incredibly tough for a defender to be named Footballer of the Year because over the course of a year there is normally always a forward who steals the headlines up front.

High-profile industry disruptions such as steel or car plant closures attract much media and political attention.